Regius Professor of Laws (Dublin)

In the founding charter of Trinity College, Elizabeth I granted the university the right to award degrees , including law. There were no other ways to train legally in Ireland until the mid-19th century. One of the Fellows taught law for one semester. There was no permanent professorship. The first mention of a publicly appointed professor is on 20 November 1667, when Henry Styles was appointed the first publ. Prof. Legum. In 1944, Frances Elizabeth Moran took over the chair, becoming the first woman in Ireland (or indeed Britain) to be a professor in law To date, no other woman had been appointed to a Regius Professorship of Laws at TCD. ==List of Regius Professors of Laws==

Regius Professors of Laws since its founding in 1688 include: • Henry Styles, 1668 • George Brown, 1686 • John Barton, 1693 • Benjamin Pratt, 1704 • John Elwood, 1710 • Robert Shawe, 1740 • John Forster, 1743 • Brabazon Disney, 1747 • John Whittingham, 1749 • Francis Stoughton Sullivan, 1750 • Patrick Duigenan, 1766 • Michael Kearney, 1776 • James Drought, 1778 • Henry Joseph Dabzac, 1779 • John Forsayeth, 1782 • Gerald FitzGerald, 1783 • Arthur Browne, 1785 • Francis Hodgkinson, 1806 • Robert Phibbs, 1808 • Richard Graves, 1809 • Francis Hodgkinson, 1810 • Christopher Edmund Allen, 1817 • Richard MacDonnell, 1840 • Henry Wray, 1841 • John Lewis Moore, 1844 • John Anster, 1850 • Thomas E. Webb, 1867 • Henry Brougham Leech, 1888 • Charles Francis Bastable, 1908, retired 1932 • Vacant, 1932–34 • Samuel Lombard Brown, 1934 • Vincent Thomas Hyginus Delany, 1963 • John Desmond Morton, 1965 • Charles Beuno McKenna, 1966 • Robert Heuston, 1970 • Paul O'Higgins, 1984 • William Binchy, 1992 • Mark Bell, 2015 ==List of Regius Professors of Feudal and English Law (1761–1934)==

In 1761, a second Regius Professorship was introduced by George III, the Regius Chair of Feudal and English Law. This chair would be continuously occupied until it was discontinued in 1934 and replaced by The Professorship of Laws. • Francis Stoughton Sullivan, 1761 • Patrick Palmer, 1766 • Patrick Duigenan, 1776 • Philip Cecil Crampton, 1816 • Samuel Mountifort Longfield, 1834 • Edmund Thomas Bewley, 1884 • George Vaughan Hart, 1891 • James Sinclair Baxter, 1909–33 ==References==